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Re:Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow by nottorp on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:09AM (#36890895)
> That being said, any question that requires extensive discussion is likely not a very good fit for SO because it's probably ambiguous, unclear or otherwise hard to answer exactly.

So basically SO isn't a tool to improve your skills but one to turn you into a copy/paste monkey?

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Re:Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow by dijksterhuis on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:37AM (#36891106)
I mean, if you can copy/paste my answer here into your codebase, I would be very surprised.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52206576/write-spark-dat...

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Re:Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow by nottorp on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:05AM (#36891330)
I'm surprised you didn't get a mod complaining there's nothing to copy/paste in there :)
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Re:Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow by HeyLaughingBoy on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:55PM (#36896494)
Stated a little more politely, that was its original purpose, yes.
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